Honey to taste-I ended up using about 2 tablespoons honey for this amount of yogurt, and about 2 tablespoons for a cup of unbeaten cream. You can make it as sweet as you like-add a bit, taste it, add more if you'd like. To sweeten the cream, add the honey to the cream before whipping it, and mix it well. Taste for sweetness.

2 tablespoons each, chopped mint and basil

Mix the yogurt or cream with the honey, whip or beat if needed in the case of the cream.

11/16/2012

This is not only going to be my first dessert post, but it's also going to be kinda short and to the point.

Last Saturday, I helped make some desserts for the USO dinner I went to. I wanted something interesting, a little fun, and something that would look nice in a jar.

'Cause women love little jars, yo.

And then I thought I'd be clever, and get some stencils of the word hope, and some glass paint, and paint it on all 30 little jars, because the motto of the USO is "Until they all come home" which makes me choke up a bit even just writing it.

Stupid emotions.

Well, let's just say it didn't go well, and I had to switch to nail polish, which was ok because it matched the color of the lids, but I don't know if it was because I kept peeling and re-sticking it, or because the stencil wasn't made to work with nail polish, but the stencil broke down about jar 18 or so, and I was have fits and going cross eyed from the polish fums.

So, fun times, fun times.

The rest of making my dessert went really well though, for those of you who care O_O *sobs quietly in the corner*

I decided to make Lychee Panna Cotta with Pomegranate Jelly. The recipe for this lovely dessert is over here: Lychee Panna Cotta She also has the recipe for the Pomegranate Jelly right under it.

The only things I changed: instead of whole milk, I used 1/2&1/2, so, 1 cup heavy cream and 1 cup 1/2 & 1/2; and I didn't put any sugar in my pomegranate jelly as my juice was very sweet. Oh, and my jelly didn't turn out as red as her's, I don't know if it's because I used bottled juice, or what. Still tasted good.

But yeah. Go to her page and read/follow her recipe-it's easy and good, and she's a good read.And her pictures are much better.

Speaking of pictures, this post was ready to go last night, but the camera ate the pictures I took, so I had to wait unti the battery charged and I had time to remember that I actually needed to still post this.